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Mike Hodges  0:00  This is a recording of an interview with Mike Hodges, recorded by Rodney Giesler on the third of March 1998, in Blandford Forum Dorset for the BECTU Oral History Archive, Reel oneRodney Giesler  0:22  Right So Mike, can you tell me when you were born and a bit […]

[…] was a good filming cameraman. He always tended on jobs to go for the scenic and the locations really, and miss the story.Alan Lawson: Overshoot, in fact. I mean I always overshot, always.John Turner: Well yes, he did overshoot I suppose, but he would take a lot of material which was nothing to do w[…]

[…] the film industry that was, became very difficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich on a contract. That contract ran out and I joined the BBC in 1962 as a holiday relief cameraman - as an assistant cameraman.Interviewer  2:24  Okay, w[…]

[…] go. I mean I had a forty thousand share option with Thames Television, it's most unusual if you leave, they allowed me to go with my share option intact. So they were very decent to me and I've got no bitterness.Alan Sapper: No.Johnny Goodman: But I wrote to this bloke, Dromgoole out of interest sa[…]

[…]hen went to university in 1975 and thought well I’ll try it for a year and if it gives me what I want, fine, and if it doesn’t I’ll leave it. But in fact...[30:02]SF: Decent degree.I got a 2:1, enjoyed it for three years, wouldn’t have wanted to do much longer. Partlybecause of course, I was very fo[…]

[…]n't. I had no training, and a woman should succeed if she undertakes something like this rather more than a man should, and I wasn't good enough, in fact. I could have been good enough. I tried to get a job in films. I wanted to get in on that series like 'The March of Time', but my socialism didn't[…]